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Inch by Inch (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 7,782 ratings — published 1960
Measuring Penny (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,085 ratings — published 1998
How Big Is a Foot? (Rise and Shine)
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avg rating 4.17 — 1,253 ratings — published 1962
Millions to Measure: A Fun Picture Book About Math and the Metric System for Kids (Ages 4-8)
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avg rating 4.03 — 463 ratings — published 2003
Rafa Counts on Papá (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 215 ratings — published 2022
How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 3,781 ratings — published 1985
Counting on Frank (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 412 ratings — published 1991
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 78,106 ratings — published 1995
Your Place in the Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 1,065 ratings — published 2020
Ants Rule: The Long and Short of It (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.46 — 70 ratings — published
Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 48 ratings — published 1997
Actual Size (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 2,651 ratings — published 2004
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure (Sir Cumference, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,534 ratings — published 1997
Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! (Marilyn Burns Brainy Day Books)
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avg rating 4.12 — 951 ratings — published 1997
The Tyranny of Metrics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,865 ratings — published 2017
Super Sand Castle Saturday (MathStart 2)
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avg rating 3.95 — 75 ratings — published 1998
The Grouchy Ladybug (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 35,544 ratings — published 1977
Me and the Measure of Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 88 ratings — published 2001
Beyond Measure: The Hidden History of Measurement from Cubits to Quantum Constants (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,386 ratings — published 2022
The Royal Treasure Measure (Math Is Fun!)
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avg rating 3.57 — 60 ratings — published 2012
Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? (Robert E. Wells Science Series)
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avg rating 4.27 — 817 ratings — published 1993
Jim and the Beanstalk (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 505 ratings — published 1970
Just How Long Can a Long String Be?! (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.64 — 282 ratings — published 2009
Who Sank the Boat? (Paperstar)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,879 ratings — published 1982
A Cloak for the Dreamer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 127 ratings — published 1994
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 5,710 ratings — published 2010
How Tall, How Short, How Faraway? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 86 ratings — published 1999
Lia & Luís: Who Has More? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 200 ratings — published
9 Kilometers (Stories from Latin America (SLA))
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avg rating 4.05 — 276 ratings — published 2023
How Tall?: Wacky Ways to Compare Height (Wacky Comparisons)
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avg rating 3.75 — 52 ratings — published 2013
Libby Loves Science: Mix and Measure: An Early Reading STEM Book of Chemistry and Math for Kids (Ages 4–8) (I Can Read Level 3)
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avg rating 4.07 — 206 ratings — published 2021
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World (ebook)
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avg rating 4.15 — 7,019 ratings — published 2018
If Pluto Was a Pea (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 110 ratings — published 2019
Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 193 ratings — published 1996
Measure What Matters (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.97 — 39,044 ratings — published 2017
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,066 ratings — published 2002
How Long Is a Whale? (Wild Facts & Amazing Math)
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avg rating 3.87 — 123 ratings — published
You Are (Not) Small
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avg rating 4.09 — 5,850 ratings — published 2014
World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 150 ratings — published 2011
Introduction to Measurement Theory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 32 ratings — published 1979
Magnus Maximus, A Marvelous Measurer (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 138 ratings — published 2010
How Long?: Wacky Ways to Compare Length (Wacky Comparisons)
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avg rating 3.70 — 44 ratings — published 2013
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 53,125 ratings — published 2012
Measurement (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 664 ratings — published 2012
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 15,509 ratings — published 2012
Inchworm and A Half (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 119 ratings — published 2001
More (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 1,615 ratings — published 2012
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking (Pigs Will Be Pigs)
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avg rating 3.43 — 69 ratings — published 1997
Chrysanthemum (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 56,887 ratings — published 1991
“Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about—the Saffron Shift.
If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark, or living forest floor.
Assigning hues to time periods, the sum total of history is saffron-brown—but the chromatic arc starts from blinding white (prehistory) to sun-yellow (Ancient Greece), then deepening to pale wood tones (Dark Ages) and finally exploding like an infinite chord into a full brown palette that includes mahoganies, siennas (Middle Ages), oak, sandalwood (the Renaissance), cherry, maple (Age of Reason), and near-black old woods (Industrial Revolution) for which there may not be names.
As time approaches our own, the wood-brown palette fades to a weird glassy colorlessness, goes black-and-white for a brief span as you think of photographs of your grandparents, and then again fades until we get a clear medium that is the color of the world.
And the present moment is perfectly transparent.
It's only as you start looking into the future, that the colors start returning. The glass is turning silvery with a murky haze, and there is blue somewhere in the distance . . .”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark, or living forest floor.
Assigning hues to time periods, the sum total of history is saffron-brown—but the chromatic arc starts from blinding white (prehistory) to sun-yellow (Ancient Greece), then deepening to pale wood tones (Dark Ages) and finally exploding like an infinite chord into a full brown palette that includes mahoganies, siennas (Middle Ages), oak, sandalwood (the Renaissance), cherry, maple (Age of Reason), and near-black old woods (Industrial Revolution) for which there may not be names.
As time approaches our own, the wood-brown palette fades to a weird glassy colorlessness, goes black-and-white for a brief span as you think of photographs of your grandparents, and then again fades until we get a clear medium that is the color of the world.
And the present moment is perfectly transparent.
It's only as you start looking into the future, that the colors start returning. The glass is turning silvery with a murky haze, and there is blue somewhere in the distance . . .”
― The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
“The customary units of measurement?
They have practical applications,
but learning them is mostly done through rote memorization—
There aren’t any proofs or critical evaluations regarding
REASONS why a foot equals twelve inches
There are only facts to memorize,
but not puzzles to solve,
With algebra—YES!
There isn’t just memorization—
There is the rearrangement
of jigsaw pieces—
jigsaw pieces that
you can solve,
not just memorize!”
― For the Intellect
They have practical applications,
but learning them is mostly done through rote memorization—
There aren’t any proofs or critical evaluations regarding
REASONS why a foot equals twelve inches
There are only facts to memorize,
but not puzzles to solve,
With algebra—YES!
There isn’t just memorization—
There is the rearrangement
of jigsaw pieces—
jigsaw pieces that
you can solve,
not just memorize!”
― For the Intellect
